Rogue Legacy is a fantastic game that combines the classic action-platforming style (and look) of Castlevania and Ghosts & Ghouls with a modern compulsion based structure that is as clever and innovative as it is challenging.The game is far from easy, designed to be a "Rogue-Like" game where upon each death, you have to start over and delve once again into the randomly generated castle.
However, Cellar Door Games have lightened this hardcore feature in a creative and intelligent way through their Lineage System, allowing a sense of advancement and progression in a game fundamentally about perma-death and skill runs.
Upon each death, you are asked to choose an heir to your legacy. Your heir inherits the gold collected on your previous runs and can use it to upgrade Castle Components for new classes and permanent benefits, Forge New Weapons and Armor with statistical upgrades and powers and Enchant Runes that slot into each piece of equipment which grant you important skills to customize your character to your play style. All these upgrades carry forward to each heir in succession, slowly growing your legacy and power and allowing you to more quickly dispatch enemies and make more and more progress.
Humorous randomly assigned Traits (some cosmetic, some debilitating, some extremely beneficial) keep things fresh and endearingly hilarious on each run. This allows you to stay invested until your skills are good enough that the challenge of the level matches your understanding of the system and you to begin to use strategy to plan our your next assault choosing the hero with the class, traits or spells that would best suit your next run's goals.
Secret Areas, Chests and Skill Based Challenges make each new room of the castle an intriguing surprise as you hope for another armor blueprint, magic rune, or pile of gold that will allow you to purchase more upgrades and finally defeat that next ridiculous boss that has haunted you for generations.
The game's nostalgia value, smooth, simple controls and delightful humor draw you in, and it's upgrade and advancement system keeps you eagerly playing. The game overall is an impressive, innovative and rewarding title and aside from the difficulty, there is little not to like about this incredible indie game.
Verdict: 85/100
System RequirementsMinimum:
- OS:Windows XP/Vista/7
- Processor:1.6 Ghz
- Memory:1 GB RAM
- Graphics:X1950 Pro, 7900 GT
- DirectX®:9.0c
- Hard Drive:400 MB HD space
- Additional:Windows 8 is currently NOT fully supported. Support for this OS will be available at a later date.
Recommended:
Genre Action- OS:Windows XP/Vista/7
- Processor:2 Ghz
- Memory:2 GB RAM
- Graphics:HD 4770, 8800 GTX
- DirectX®:9.0c
- Hard Drive:400 MB HD space
- Additional:Windows 8 is currently NOT fully supported. Support for this OS will be available at a later date.
Details:
Style Action Adventure
Release Date June 27, 2013
Developer Cellar Door Games
Publisher Cellar Door Games
Flags Downloadable Release
